Maury and JuanPablo met on the dating site OkCupid. It works people!!! JuanPablo was actually thinking of deactivating his page and Maury was one bad date away from going on Match, but they decided to give it one last try. JuanPablo noticed that he and Maury shared a lot of interests and her beautiful smile. Maury noticed JuanPablo’s great style and that he was Colombian. After chatting for a few weeks and 2 failed attempts at setting up a first date, Maury & JuanPablo finally decided to meet up on a Saturday afternoon at Hops & Barley in Portage Park. As usual, JuanPablo showed up about 10 minutes earlier than the set time. Maury hadn’t heard from JuanPablo that day so she was NOT ready when he text her that he was already there. Maury was freshly showered, in sweats, on the way to run errands. She quickly took a u-turn home and slapped a face on and some decent clothes. The date went so well that they didn’t realize they had talked for 4 hours. This was a good sign for more to come...

Maury and JuanPablo set up a weekend getaway to Milwaukee. They planned a trip to a brewery and a restaurant along the riverwalk. What Maury didn’t know was that JuanPablo had spent the last month planning the proposal from designing the ring to booking the photographer to capture the special moment. The brewery tour had been earlier that day and, per usual, Maury was feeling lazy to get ready for dinner and almost asked JuanPablo to cancel it! When they finally got out of the hotel, JuanPablo’s stomach was doing flips; he wanted everything to go perfectly. At the restaurant, they “bumped into” friends...who actually were there to capture the moment. They greeted the friends casually and then went about dinner. During dinner Maury had no idea what was up except the waiter was being very weird and was being a nervous wreck. They chucked it up to maybe it being his first day. Meanwhile, JuanPablo was nervously checking to make sure the ring was still in his pocket. Once dinner was over, JuanPablo went to the bathroom - which was the sign to the friends to get their camera ready. When JuanPablo came back, Maury noticed that he had put his blazer back on which was weird because they were not ready to leave. The friends started to say their goodbyes but asked to take a picture of Maury and JuanPablo since they were dressed up. Maury turned around to re-apply her lipstick and JuanPablo pulled out the ring and got down on one knee. For what felt like forever for JuanPablo was a few seconds for Maury and once she turned around she was surprised to see him down on one knee - CUE THE WATER WORKS. JuanPablo asked Maury to marry him and she enthusiastically said YES! The two were over the moon with emotion and couldn’t wait to start planning their lives together.